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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Yammer, Salesforce Chatter. File sharing? Enterprise collaboration?

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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There was the usual cogent presentation by Brian Solis on the future of PR in which he implored us to get beyond the echo chamber of Silicon Valley and Techmeme and focus on staying on the radar screen of real America. He talked about the need to give personal access to fans and remain authentic while still leaving some room for mystique.

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Is WebEx “Dead Man Walking?”

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This week I was preparing for my weekly This Week in Venture Capital web show and was researching some of the deals that were announced for the week. I registered it in my mind at the time, “hmm, a screen cast while you’re on Skype, that’s pretty clever.&# CloudShare as a product also sounded like a great idea to me.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. We believe that chat-based communications will be another i/o for all enterprise applications.

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